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Short Description: Onion Pinch Baroque Conterpoise is a dance performance happening in the cork installation Onion Pinch. The film documents how dancers’ bodies react to the installation’s flexibility and oscillation.

Counterpoise is a force or influence that balances or equally counteracts another. Baroque indicates a imperfect pearl.

Baroque counterpoise in an imperfect equilibrium requiring a constant rearrangement. A dynamical equilibrium based on dancers’ movements and the installation’s response.

Year: 2010

Duration: 4 minutes

Full Synopsis:

Onion Pinch Baroque Conterpoise is a dance performance happening in the cork installation Onion Pinch originally in the Digital Primitive Event of the Design Biennal Experimenta Design Lisbon and at Made Expo Milano.

The film documents how dancers’ bodies react to the installation’s flexibility and oscillation.

Counterpoise is a force or influence that balances or equally counteracts another. Baroque indicates a imperfect pearl.

Baroque counterpoise in an imperfect equilibrium requiring a constant rearrangement. A dynamical equilibrium based on dancers’ movements and the installation’s response.

The installation Onion Pinch designed by Caterina Tiazzoldi and Eduardo Benamor Duarte explores cork capacity to define a spatial environment based on the idea of flexibility and oscillaltion.

The film engages the type of relation deriving from the union between the dancers bodies and the installation materialità; between dancers’ movement and the spatiality that blossoms from cork’s flexibility.

Caterina Tiazzoldi is an architect based in Torino (Italy) and New York (USA).

Caterina Tiazzoldi work is characterized by a strong interaction between the research developed at Columbia University and at the Politecnico di Torino, and ten year experience in the professional practice.

Caterina Tiazzoldi has been invited to participate to several international events and exhibits such as Torino World Design Capital, the Young Design Talent selection by Giulio Cappellini for the Temporary Museum for New Design, Experimenta Design Lisbon and the show Minimaousse at the museum Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris.